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Monday, December 13, 2010

SEW MAMA SEW NATIONAL GIVEAWAY DAY

I am so excited to be participating in the Sew Mama Sew giveaway day! It's so much fun to give stuff away! I didn't have my own blog last time around but I had SO much fun looking at new blogs and finding inspiration from so many places.

Ok, I won't make you read much more. I know you all want to know what I am giving away so here it is...

136 charm squares from the Moda line Recess by American Jane
and 2 yards of coordinating fabric from the same line

Don't worry if you don't sew, I have something for you as well...

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An adorable Buzz Lightyear bag, perfect for little hands.
(a coloring book fits inside perfectly, along with any
other goodies your little guy may love)

OR...

Tutu tote bag for the little princess in your life

The winner can choose which item they want! All you have to do to enter is make a comment on this post and tell me what your favorite Holiday tradition is (comments that don't include a favorite holiday tradition will not be eligible to win). I will ship internationally so everyone is welcome. You have until December 17th to enter my giveway and don't forget to check out the master list to be entered in hundreds more giveaways! Item of your choice will be mailed no later than December 20th. Be sure to include your e-mail address if you do not have your e-mail on your profile. Otherwise I will not be able to contact you if you win and that would be sad.

Additional entry:~Become a follower of this blog and comment letting me know you did so. Already a follower, leave me a comment reminding me. (if you commented that you are a follower and aren't one then I will have to pick another winner)

431 comments:

I love putting up our tree, it's a fabulous fake tree that my mum gave us and the kids love sorting out which branch goes where. I've collected loads of different individual old fashioned decorations for it over the years. I also love the extremely tasty carrot cake my mum makes every year... oh I think I'm finally getting into the Christmas spirit this year now :)

My favorite holiday tradition is getting together with family and telling stories from Christmas past. I a have a pretty crazy family, so the stories are always fun :) Thanks for the chance to win!woodlandrabbit@yahoo.com

My favorite holiday tradition is the nativity display my church always does. Probably at least 100 different family nativity sets, all on display in one place, with live music performances every night. Love the fabric.

My favorite Christmas tradition is having coffee cake for breakfast on Christmas morning. We did it growing up and now I make it for my family! Thanks for the chance to win! And any of those wonderful gifts would be neat. I'd particularly love the charm squares!

AW! The prizes! They are so cute they kill! Okay favorite holiday traditions... getting the tree right after Thanksgiving, decorating it, hot cocoa, driving around and looking at Christmas lights and of course, my family's tradition (we're Cuban) Lechon (pork) on Christmas Eve!

I am IN LOVE with those fabrics. I have only been quilting for about a year now and I'll be the first to admit my fabric stash needs help! The only thing we could call a tradition is the fact that we collect "ornaments" for our Christmas tree all year long when we go on trips. This has lead to "real" ornaments, key chains, and just anything that could be hung. Its going to be interesting. We plan to keep this up with future children too!

Beth- I love reading your blog and looking at all the cute things you sew. We have lots of Holiday traditions,but I really enjoy Jace reading The elf on a shelf book and bringing Fred to life during the season. And on Christmas morning, our kids know they have to stay upstairs until everyone is awake and then we video them coming down the stairs so we can capture their face when they see what Santa has brought them.

I love going to my sister in law's for Christmas eve (something we are missing this year because we moved across country for work). We all have stockings and we hang out and visit and eat and just enjoy each other's company.

I love the stack of fabric but my number two choice would have to be the tutu handbag for my little girl it is adorable! As for one of my favorite holiday traditions it would be decorating a gingerbread house or train with my little one each year!

I would love that fabric! My favorite holiday tradition is to get up early and start baking a kugelhopf for Christmas breakfast. I like to get up before anyone else and get the dough made and let it rise and it can bake while we open presents.

My favorite tradition is from my husbands family. They celebrate Advent (the 4 Sundays before Christmas). It's a wonderful way of keeping the true meaning of Christmas in our minds. Thanks for a great giveaway!!!

My favorite holiday tradition is baking with my mom the night before Christmas. On Christmas day we go over to my Grandmothers and take around 5 pies/deserts. So we spend the whole night before baking. There is always flour everywhere, laughter, wine, and wonderful aromas!

My favorite tradition is going to get our christmas tree. We go to the same farm that we've been going to since I was in kindergarten, pick out a tree, and eat candy canes and hot cocoa while decorating it.embyrfire(at)hotmail(dot)com

beautiful work on both the buzz bag & tutu! my favorite holiday tradition is that my family still does the Feast of the 7 Fishes- and although i don't really enjoy eating anything but well, shrimp, i still love the idea of the tradition, and plan to keep it up when my parents are unable to do so- tradition is everything during the holidays!!! marie5k@yahoo.com

just found you on SMS site. love love LOVE the tutu bag! favorite holiday tradition...we go to the movies on christmas eve, then family party. also, go to see the lights downtown. everything is lit up for blocks and mall windows decorated with holiday scenes (used to be out of candy)

The heavens opened when I clicked on you blog! I love the recess line!! Those are my happy colors. I think I just plain love the era they represent.

Favorite part of Christmas: Christmas Eve. We have a simple dinner, a sock exchange with family members (the kids favorite), then my husband reads from Luke and the rest of the family acts out the Christmas story. This can be very touching or absolutely hilarious depending on who plays which part. After that it's See's nuts and chews for everyone! (My mom's favorite part).

Those fabrics are wonderful! My parents live overseas so my favorite tradition is their annual visit for the holidays. It's not often that my parents, brother and I are all in the same place at the same time so it makes it very special.

My favorite holiday tradition is eating avocado sandwiches at my Grammy's house on Christmas Eve . . . it is California after all! I love the fabric but my daughter (yes, my daughter) would die for that Buzz Lightyear bag! Thanks for the chance!

My Holiday tradition is bringing out the nativity scene glass display and Christmas tree, putting lots of presents under it. Gathering all friends and families that we havt met for a while and enjoy a dinner remembering that our savior is born!

My jaw just hit the keyboard...I'd love to win these charm squares! And that tutu tote makes me wish I had a little princess...too cute. But, my son would love the Buzz bag.

Mustn't get sidetracked and forget the tradition part! ;-) We have several that I enjoy, going to see lights, watching the Nutcracker, Frosty the Snowman, etc., our candy advent for the month, making ornaments, singing while my daughter plays piano, visiting the nursing home with gifts and to sing, and this year will be adding a candy cane hunt. I just love this time of year, love family time!!

My favorite tradition is when our son and I would decorate the tree, watching a Christmas movie as we did. We love the Muppets Christmas Carol. He is 22 now and we don't do it anymore...time to make a new fav tradition!

love all three of those giveaways. my favorite holiday tradition is attending the childrens christmas eve services at my church. last year it got snowed out and it really depressed me the whole holiday. looking forward to this years. thanks.

wow!!! what a generous giveaway!!!My favourite tradition is putting up our Christmas tree the day of our local Santa Claus Parade. We watch the parade, then come home, have a nice, warm lunch, and spend the rest of the afternoon putting up our tree and decorating it. My kids are 4 and 7, so they love putting up the decorations!Thanks for the chance to win!

Hello!!MY favourite holiday tradition is the Christmas dinner (haha!) and of course decorating the tree. I would love the fabrics for I sew for my little girl. And I would love to learn to quilt. My sewing blog

I would LOVE to win the fabric! My favorite Christmas tradition is that my mom used to always buy me a box of chocolate covered cherries for Christmas. Now my son always buys me a box to keep the tradition going.

My favourite tradition is giving my children a little gift each morning in December. It's a great way to add to the excitement of the season! :)I'd love to win the fabric. Thanks for the great giveaway.

My favorite holiday tradition is actually at the 4th of July! Every relative in town and friends that any would like to invite as well all go to an outdoor classical music concert followed by fireworks. We all bring food and wine and just have a wonderful time hanging out! We are spread all over the country at Christmas, so we love our time together in July! Thanks for the chance!!

We started a new tradition when we moved away from family. That was the year that my older daughter was 2 and her Christmas list was "a hamburger and a trick-or-treat". So Christmas dinner is now "Everybody's Favorites". Each person gets to pick a couple foods they love and I put together something from those that would make a rational meal: ie prime rib, crab legs, artichokes, sorbet w/ pomegranates.

I would LOVE the fabric. I'm obsessed with charms. Thanks for the great giveaway!My favorite holiday tradition is watching "the Muppet Christmas Carol" with my family on Christmas eve! Every year for a while now, without fail. :)It's also my 21st birthday on the 17th, so winning would be extremely awesome!

Christmas morning is special to my family & I. My only son & his family live right down the road so I make a big breakfast on Christmas morning, we eat, they do the dishes & then we sip coffee while opening gifts. Very relaxed & gratifying.

Wonderful giveaway! Our very large family all get together for Christmas and do a White Elephant exchange - instead of regular gifts they are things you think several people would like, we draw numbers, the first person picks a gift and opens it, then the second person can either take the gift or pick a new one. We have over 30 people and it really becomes a fun time as someone "steals" the gift.

every year we pick names with my in laws family and we aren't allowed to say who we have. then we all write a poem about the gift or person and we have to guess who we all have. the poems get really funny.

My favorite holiday tradition is making graham-cracker houses. We started it when my sisters and I were kids and have continued it as a big family now that we have kids, and it is SO much fun. We look forward to it all year!

Tradition, schmadition. How about a tradition of doing something totally new and bizarre and creative every year? Like last year we drove (a long way) to a cool place and had Christmas morning in a hotel with a tiny tree on the nightstand. And then there was the year when I rebelled against store-bought stockings and decided I'd learn to knit socks by making Christmas stockings. So they were all odd shaped and didn't have the same capacity, so there was a small amount of squabbling (which continues to this day, as the odd-ball stockings have carried on for the past 5 years). Maybe that was TMI. Sorry.

Making travel mugs of cocoa and driving around town looking at christmas lights the night we decorate the tree, then coming home and "lighting it up" for the first time and sitting in the dark, soaking up the glow.

I don't have children so the fabric please!gabbyvinay[at]gmail[dot]com

Definitely decorating the tree. My family makes sure to find a time when we can all be there, even if that means doing the tree on Christmas Eve! So excited for Christmas this year...my daughter will be celebrating her first Christmas! Can't wait.

I would most definitely like the charm packs...I love charm packs, and I can NEVER find them around where I live. Thanks for the giveaway!

I have to say, we don't really have many Christmas traditions. This is our first year as a married couple and it's definitely time to start some. One thing we both do (and did before we met each other) was to buy a new decoration for the tree each year, a special one. Now we buy three each year (me, husband and stepdaughter) and they always mean something(we don't have one of those colour coordinated trees-it's a hodge podge!!) for example the little angels we bought the day we got engaged.

We don't really celebrate any holidays ourselves, but when I know its a big holiday for any religion I usually decide to treat the dogs to an extra special dinner. They're rather fond of hanukkah because that's 8 days of treats for them. I hope that counts as a tradition.

Favorite holiday tradition is only a couple years old. Our favorite tradition is now letting my girls open all the stockings! They are 6 and 4.5 and they "help" each person open their stocking from Santa. They get so excited, it makes me smile just thinking of it.

LOVE the fabric. A favorite tradition is putting reindeer food out on Christmas Eve - a mixture of oatmeal and glitter helps the reindeer find their carrots (at least according to my youngest son)! Thanks for the giveaway!

Oohh - fab fabric and how adorable are the bag and tutu? A Christmans tradition that was part of my growing up and I now do with my children is putting hay and a carott out for the reindeer and leaving Santa a sandwich (he probably gets enoutg mince pies!) Thanks for the chance to win!

Great giveaway! I'd love the fabric. My favorite tradition is pizza for dinner on Christmas. My mom started this one when we were all little because she wanted to spend the day playing with us, not cooking a feast. Now that I have kids I couldn't agree with it more.

Thank you for the giveaway! All of it is amazing! My favorite holiday tradition was the opening of one present on Christmas Eve (it was always pajamas for us to wear that night.) And my son is now 2 and that's the tradition I'm looking forward to the most this year! :D

My favorite new tradition is making sugar cookie cutouts with my 4 year old daughter. It's our second year in a row making and decorating them, and I've decided to make it a tradtition by buying a new cookie cutter for her every year. They're a pain in the butt to make but so worth it!

Thanks for the lovley giveaway. As for traditions it is gathering around making and eating food. Creation is really what it's all about. It's when I've learned the most about my family and friends. Thanks again.

I just got married, so my husband and I are starting all of our own family traditions for the first time this year. I think my favorite (so far, at least) is seeing what is inside the Advent calendar every day (I never got to do one of those when I was a little kid!).

My favorite Christmas tradition is eating my Mom's homemade stollen for breakfast on Christmas day. I did't realize hoe much the small of candied citrus peel reminded me of Christmas until I candied some myself this year for her to use.

Thank you for such a wonderful giveaway! racergirl1313[at]hotmail[dot]com

my fabric christmas tradition is the santa cookies my grama has made every year of my life. now i'm 33 and she's 94, and not able to make them anymore. my daughter & i will make them together for the first time (she's two) and mail my grama a box!

Our family Christmas tradition is to have a very simple meal on Christmas day. It is a tradition that is loathed by our extended family but envied by parents everywhere. Who wants to miss all the Christmas fun by being stuck in the kitchen? Not me!

My favorite tradition is when my sister and I get together at my mom's house for a whole weekend spent baking Christmas goodies. Then we make plates to give away to family, friends, neighbors and co-workers.

oooh wow. I would love tow in the fabric! For several years my hubby and I have traveled to a different city for a day or two to do some exporing. It has become a fun tradition for us.kellyihovey[at]yahoo[dot]com

Every Christmas eve, for the past few years, our whole family, two adults and 4 kids huddle up on two couches and watch "The Polar Express". It is a new tradition, but I suppose that is how traditions start, right?! I love the fabric you are giving away! Thanks for the chance to win.

A favorite tradition would be getting my kiddies together with their cousins to decorate gingerbread houses (good thing I have central vac !). We use graham crackers so it's kinda cheating but everyone just wants to get right to the decorating part anyway and it saves an awful lot of time. It's fun to see how everyone's designs have progressed as they've gotten older . Thanks for such an awesome giveaway !

Fantastic Giveaway!!My favorite tradition is christmas eve dinner. When we were kids my family was too busy to do anything fancy christmas eve when a big dinner was planned christmas day so my parents order a lunch meat platter and pick up some cooked shrimp. We all gather around making our own sandwiches and eating shrimp until we turn a pinkish color. It is great because of how casual it is and how everyone is just gathered around.

I love the fabric! Thank you for sharing. One of my favorite traditions is my wife making German pancakes on Christmas morning. She's been making them since she was a little girl, and we hardly ever have them at any other time of year, so it always feels extra special.

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I am an almost 40-year that recently starting back to full time work after being a SAHM for 15 years. I am married to a very supportive man (and wonderful father!) and proud mama to 3 spectacular boys. I love family, friends, baseball, ice cream and sewing. Sewing time is far & few between work and keeping up with my boys' school & sports activities. Here I will put down my thoughts about my experiences as a baseball mom.